More reader thoughts on climate commentary

In response to those writing letters to push back against Rev Skip Gillikin's point of view, I offer some thoughts:One writer asserted that views contrary to her viewpoint deserve no space in the newspaper. But in a democracy, isn't there room for differing points of view?Another claimed that it's already been determined (case closed) that humans are the cause of climate change. Is that the only point of view? Do all scientists concur that humans are the one and only influencing factor?Finally someone else brought up the subject of innocent life and carbon pollution. I thought carbon was a basic element necessary to human functioning. An inexpensive solution to absorb all that bad carbon would be to plant more trees. About those 5 million lives lost per year due to this so-called ''carbon pollution:" have we considered the 85 million innocent lives destroyed yearly by abortion? (WHO figure reported on ''worldometers.info'' website.) Now there is a moral tragedy we can easily do something about.Do you really think biblical Christians would deny God's mandate to be good stewards of the Earth and her resources? All Rev. Gillikin was suggesting was that there were weightier issues that qualify as truly "moral" matters.Maria Cochrane, Balsam###Recently a local minister writing in this space assured us that the climate was in God's hands. The science behind global warming was irrelevant under this logic as it was beyond our control.Today, I read that Rev. Billy Graham was admitted to Mission Hospital for a respiratory problems. His son, Franklin, discussing a similar illness in October attributes his father's recovery from the infection to antibiotics. Drugs made possible through scientific investigation.Deep mysteries about life and the universe surround us and may never be answered by science. For these questions I turn to religion, but when I am sick I turn to my doctor. We need more than blind faith to confront the damage we are doing to our planet and to begin to heal the only home we have.Ben Fleming, Asheville

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More reader thoughts on climate commentary

In response to those writing letters to push back against Rev Skip Gillikin's point of view, I offer some thoughts:One writer asserted that views contrary to her viewpoint deserve no space in the